English Countryside is Destination in ‘Musical Passports’For Evanston Symphony Orchestra’s 67th Season

Evanston, IL — Local area favorite Wendy Warner will highlight the third destination of the Evanston Symphony Orchestra’s 67th season, themed “Musical Passports.” The concert is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. Sunday, May 5 at Pick-Staiger concert hall in Evanston.

The concert features music composed in, and evocative of, the beautiful English countryside (and seaside) by Benjamin Britten, Edward Elgar, and Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Conducted by Music Director Lawrence Eckerling, the orchestra will feature Warner as soloist in the Elgar Cello Concerto. The concert celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of Britten with the Four Sea Interludes from his opera Peter Grimes, and concludes with the Fifth Symphony of Vaughan Williams

The cello soloist, a graduate of North Shore Country Day School and now based in Georgia, has performed frequently in the Chicago area with many musical organizations including the Evanston Symphony.

The final Musical Passports destination planned for the 2012-13 season by the Evanston Symphony Orchestra will be From the City of Light to Eternal Rome on June 16.

Tickets for the May 5 concert are available in advance for $28 for adults, $23 for seniors, $5 for full-time students with ID and FREE for children 12 and under. Tickets are available online at www.evanstonsymphony.org or by calling 847-864-8804. Tickets can also be purchased at the box office on the day of the concert for $35 for adults and $30 for seniors; prices for students and children are the same as in advance.

Due to construction on the south end of the Northwestern University campus, Arts Circle Drive is currently closed to traffic. Free parking is still available on Sundays in the two-level structure located on Campus Drive. For more information please go to www.evanstonsymphony.org or call 847.864.8804.

Founded in 1945, the Evanston Symphony was the Illinois Council of Orchestras’ “Orchestra of the Year” for 2010. The ESO offers five concerts a year with a mission to provide community members of all ages with convenient, affordable opportunities to perform and hear fine classical music from locally, nationally and internationally renowned artists. # # #